OR.NET
For three years - until 2016 – the BMBF-sponsored lighthouse project OR.NET drove forward integration in the OR, as well as the integration of medical devices and software solutions within a holistic infrastructure in the operating theatre and hospital. This collaboration of around 50 project partners from industry, research and hospitals, as well as an equal number of associated partners – including steute Meditec – led, amongst other things, to development of today's ISO/ -IEEE standards which define the essential basis for "Service-oriented Device Connectivity" (SDC). These standards are a key prerequisite for interoperability in the OR.
In brief
- Project start: 1st September 2012
- Project end: 30th April 2016
- Associated Partner
After 2016, the project continued – again with steute Meditec as a partner – as OR.NET e.V. (Reg. Assoc.) The ongoing vision of this association is to apply modern information and communication technology in order to establish safe and dynamic device-to-device communication, and in so doing to realise the openly integrated OR of the future. In this plug & play environment, all manner of OR devices will automatically not only be recognised, but also integrated. The integrated devices can then be operated via a single user interface. Current OR.NET tasks include the set-up of interoperable OR demonstration and test centres.
Focus - OR.NET
- Development of overall architecture: real time, video streaming, numerous devices and medical disciplines
- Testing and realisation of compliance
- Development of operator models
- Standardisation
- Set-up of demonstrators
Project partners
- Aesculap AG
- Bait Partner
- Beger Design
- Centrum for CeMPEG e.V., Aachen
- Drägerwerk AG & Co. KG, Lübeck
- ERNW Research GmbH
- Research Group Computer-Assisted Medicine (CaMed), Reutlingen University
- GADV mbH
- Ilara GmbH
- Innovation Centre Computer-Assisted Surgery – ICCAS
- Institute for Applied Microelectronics and Data Engineering (IMD), University of Rostock
- Institute of Medical Informatics, University of Lübeck
- Institute for Software Engineering and Programming - ISP, University of Lübeck
- Institute of Telematics - ITM, University of Lübeck
- IT4Process GmbH
- Chair of Applied Medical Engineering - mediTEC, RWTH Aachen University
- Localite GmbH
- OPT SurgiSystems S.r.l.
- Schölly Fiberoptic GmbH
- S.I.M.E.O.N. Medical GmbH & Co.KG
- steute Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
- Storz Medical AG
- SurgiTAIX AG
- University Hospital Aachen, RWTH Aachen University
- Unitransferklinik GmbH
- University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, University of Dresden
- W.O.M. World of medicine GmbH